Instituto Salesiano (or IS, Instituto Salesiano da Imaculada Conceição, ) is a
Catholic
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elementary school through secondary school in São Lourenço (St. Lawrence's Parish),
Macau
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. The school is one of the oldest educational institutions founded in Macau. The medium of instruction is English, although some particular subjects such as Chinese Literature and Chinese History are taught in
Cantonese
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. It is a member of the
Macau Catholic Schools Association
Macau Catholic Schools Association (, AECM; ) was established by the Bishop of Macau during the 1960s.
History
established Federation of Catholic Schools of Macau () in 1967 and it was supported by Salesian and Jesuit priests. After the bisho ...
.
History
Instituto Salesiano was established in 1906, during the Qing dynasty, by Fr. Louis Versiglia. The school is run by the
Salesians of Don Bosco
The Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB), formally known as the Society of Saint Francis de Sales (), is a religious congregation of men in the Catholic Church, founded in 1859 by the Italian priest John Bosco to help poor and migrant youth during the ...
, aims at giving the students a complete and balanced education in different aspects. The campus, front of St. Lawrence's Church, was originally owned by the
British East India Company
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. Since 1976, the school has become an exam center of
General Certificate of Education
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as well as an exam center of City and Guilds of London Institute.
profiled the school in 1999. The school opened three new buildings in 2023 with funding from the government.
Campus
In 2016 the campus included a building that was built sometime before 1916. In 2016 the school made plans to raze the building so it could build new buildings as part of an expansion.
Principals
School Hymn
The anthem was transcribed by Austrian missionary Fr. Guilherme Schmid
School Anthem of Instituto Salesiano of Macau 澳門慈幼中學校歌(Chinese)
ISSC
Instituto Salesiano Student Council, established in 1997, is the officially recognized student organization of the school.
ISSC holds singing competition regularly every year
("Music's Demo" in 2010,"Blue's End" in 2011)
Website:http://www.ism.edu.mo/issc/index.htm
Notable alumni
*
Domingos Lam
Domingos Lam Ka Tseung (; 9 April 1928 – 27 July 2009) was the first Chinese-born bishop (in Hong Kong then under British sovereignty) in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Macau. On 26 May 1987, he was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Macau
...
(The first Chinese born bishop in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Macau.)
* Domingos Chan (Macau professional football player who plays as a goalkeeper for Macau team. He currently plays for Sun Hei in the Hong Kong First Division League.)
* Ao Man-long (ex-
Secretary for Transport and Public Works
The Secretary for Transport and Public Works ( zh, 運輸工務司; ) is the department of the Macau Government responsible for overseeing a number of the region's important services.
List of departments
* Cartography and Cadastre Bureau
* Marin ...
of
Macau
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)
*Fr. Pedro Ho (The director-general of Bosco Youth Service Network.)
*Brian Leong Ka Hang (Macau Top Footballer of the Year of 2011.)
See also
*
Salesians of Don Bosco
The Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB), formally known as the Society of Saint Francis de Sales (), is a religious congregation of men in the Catholic Church, founded in 1859 by the Italian priest John Bosco to help poor and migrant youth during the ...
*
Yuet Wah College
Yuet Wah College (; ; abbr: YWC), often referred to as Yuet Wah, is a Macau all-boys Catholic Church, Catholic secondary school in São Lázaro (St. Lazarus Parish), Macau.Salesian English School